Bayesian persuasion and information design

E Kamenica - Annual Review of Economics, 2019 - annualreviews.org
A school may improve its students' job outcomes if it issues only coarse grades. Google can
reduce congestion on roads by giving drivers noisy information about the state of traffic. A …

Persuasion with limited communication capacity

M Le Treust, T Tomala - Journal of Economic Theory, 2019 - Elsevier
We consider a Bayesian persuasion problem where the persuader and the decision maker
communicate through an imperfect channel that has a fixed and limited number of messages …

Strategies of election rigging: trade-offs, determinants, and consequences

Z Luo, A Rozenas - Quarterly Journal of Political Science, 2018 - papers.ssrn.com
Ideally, elections should peacefully allocate political power and remove bad leaders from
office. We study how the electoral mechanism performs when the government can rig …

Bayesian persuasion under ex ante and ex post constraints

Y Babichenko, I Talgam-Cohen… - Proceedings of the AAAI …, 2021 - ojs.aaai.org
Bayesian persuasion, as introduced by Kamenica and Gentzkow in 2011, is the study of
information sharing policies among strategic agents. A prime example is signaling in online …

Persuading strategic voters

TT Kerman, P Herings, D Karos - Dominik, Persuading Strategic …, 2020 - papers.ssrn.com
A Sender wants to persuade multiple Receivers with homogeneous preferences and a
common belief about the state of the world to vote in favor of a proposal. Prior to the vote …

A Persuasive Approach to Combating Misinformation

S Hossain, A Mladenovic, Y Chen, G Gidel - arXiv preprint arXiv …, 2023 - arxiv.org
We propose using Bayesian Persuasion as a tool for social media platforms to combat the
spread of online misinformation. As platforms can predict the popularity and misinformation …

Bayesian Persuasion with Lie Detection

F Ederer, W Min - 2022 - nber.org
How does lie detection constrain the potential for one person to persuade another to change
her action? We consider a model of Bayesian persuasion in which the Receiver can detect …

Persuasion with coarse communication

YC Aybas, E Turkel - arXiv preprint arXiv:1910.13547, 2019 - arxiv.org
How does an expert's ability persuade change with the availability of messages? We study
games of Bayesian persuasion the sender is unable to fully describe every state of the world …

Strategic communication with side information at the decoder

ML Treust, T Tomala - arXiv preprint arXiv:1911.04950, 2019 - arxiv.org
We investigate the problem of strategic point-to-point communication with side information at
the decoder, in which the encoder and the decoder have mismatched distortion functions …

Resisting persuasion

E Tsakas, N Tsakas, D Xefteris - Economic Theory, 2021 - Springer
In the context of Bayesian Persuasion (Kamenica and Gentzkow in Am Econ Rev 101: 2590–
2615, 2011), typically, a biased Sender designs a signal to influence the binary decision of …